Wednesday, June 14, 2017

root vegetable storage

Love this as a way to store vegetables

You’ll need some cardboard or wooden boxes and something for
insulation; newspaper, sawdust, peat moss, or sand. Place a layer of
insulation on the bottom of the box and then a single layer of your root
crop (carrots, potatoes, beets, etc). Make sure the roots aren’t
touching the sides of the box. Cover the roots with a quarter inch of
insulation, then another layer of roots, and so on until the box is
filled. Make sure to leave enough room to have the top layer be a few
inches of insulation. You don’t want exposed roots at the top of the
box. Also, it’s best to store a single type of root in each box, instead
of mixing and matching.